Elapsed time for vars was: 25.304 µsec's #### Elapsed time for vars was: 5321462136156.284 µsec's #### use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday tv_interval); my $t0 = [gettimeofday]; # Time::HiRes (start time) my $t1 = ''; # (end time) # Draw page, do SQL query here $t1 = [gettimeofday]; # end timer my $elapsed = tv_interval ($t0); $elapsed = $elapsed * 1000; print p("Elapsed time for vars was: $elapsed µsec's\n");